AMD Athlon II 255 and 260

Test Rig:

• Glacialtech Altair A381 Media Center PC Case
• MSI 890GXM-G65 Motherboard
• AMD Athlon II x2 255 and 260
• 4GB Crucial Ballistx Tracer RAM
• Crucial 128GB SSD
• Windows 7 x64

CPU-Z:

	Athlon II X2 255	Athlon II X2 260

CPU-Z is a program that is used to display information about a processor, along with information about other components in the system. Here we can see that the only real difference between the chips is the multiplier (15.5x vs 16x).

Overclocking:

For our overclocking test, we went with a quick and dirty approach, by using the automated overclocking switches on the motherboard. We were able to easily get a 15% overclock on the 255, bringing it up to around 3.56 GHz. If you go in and manually overclock the chip, along with proper cooling, a 20% overclock should be achievable on either of these chips. Theoretically the 260 should overclock better as it is a “higher quality” chip. Honestly this is not always the case, it really depends on luck of the draw when it comes to chip quality and their overclocking ability. This is more of a demonstration of what may be possible.

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